18th and Vine

[FangKC]

The collapsing into a ruin church on Paseo needs to be demolished., Would have been an interesting conversion but now it is a nasty front door to the district.

I think I read somewhere that it will be renovated.

[Cratedigger]

The collapsing into a ruin church on Paseo needs to be demolished., Would have been an interesting conversion but now it is a nasty front door to the district.

I think I read somewhere that it will be renovated.

Believe it when I see it

I hope I do

[cityscenekc]

I was told that old church is owned by an old pastor with a tiny congregation that has no means to renovate it.

[moderne]

The roof is missing! How can any congregation use the building? Why isn't it condemned as unsafe for human occupation?

[TheLastGentleman]

I wish we had some sort of monuments program for historic churches so that they could be maintained as historic sites. It would probably be argued to conflict with separation of church and state or something, but it’s just wild how many of these buildings KC has lost just within my memory.

[moderne]

I do wonder about the state of a lot of the grand churches that seem to parade up and down east Linwood. A lot of wealth and resources were expended and just about every variety of Christianity and Judaism had their own monument.

[FangKC]

The former Wheatley Provident Hospital gets a new roof.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1HnTE2LpSf ... _copy_link

[missingkc]

Are there plans for renovated Wheatly?

[FangKC]

The developers are hoping to land a health care tenant.

[FangKC]

Zhou B Art Center

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2SxlLvpYZj ... _copy_link

[FangKC]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C20XXsUyH47 ... _copy_link

[FangKC]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3D13xrpqv2 ... _copy_link

[FangKC]

The former Wheatley Provident Hospital gets a new roof.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1HnTE2LpSf ... _copy_link

More progress.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3HHc6xOWSq ... _copy_link

[FangKC]

HUD takes over and installs a Virginia firm to manage Kansas City's troubled Parade Park Homes

After decades of neglect and decay amid turmoil among the management of one of the country’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives, Parade Park Homes has been taken under federal control.
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This week, HUD told residents that a Virginia real estate firm, Leumas Residential, LLC, would run the housing cooperative. Leumas has managed other federal housing properties for more than five years.
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https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-11-29/hu ... park-homes

Parade Park Homes will become denser with new development. The current 510 townhouses will be replaced with 1065 residences--more than doubling the count.

Parade Park Homes plan would replace existing buildings with more than 1,000 new residences

A redevelopment plan for Parade Park Homes could tear down most existing structures in phases to make way for more than 1,000 new residences, including hundreds of affordable apartments under Kansas City's standards.

Flaherty & Collins Properties and Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corp. propose a total of 1,065 residences, including different types of units for rent and sale, according to preliminary plans shared with Parade Park Homes residents, viewed by the Kansas City Business Journal.
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Incorporated in 1963, Parade Park Homes includes 510 units in 46 row buildings. About one-third, or 166 units, had active leases as of late November. Others were destroyed in two buildings left standing and derelict after a February 2022 fire. Flaherty & Collins would take over community management and demolish the burned buildings soon after acquiring the property.
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Also planned is new ground-floor commercial space, community spaces, parks and playgrounds.
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Phase One (northeast of 18th Street and Woodland Avenue):

200 LIHTC apartments; 4,000 square feet of leasing and amenity space (Q3 2025-Q3 2027)
200 market-rate apartments; 15,000 square feet of commercial space; 6,000 square feet of leasing and amenity space (Q3 2025-Q3 2027)
60 units of senior affordable housing; 1,500 square feet of leasing and amenity space (Q3 2025-Q3 2027)

Phase Two (southeast of Truman and Woodland avenues):

24 for-sale units (Q4 2026-Q2 2028)
150 LIHTC apartments; 3,000 square feet of amenity space (Q4 2026-Q2 2028)
150 market-rate apartments; 4,500 square feet of amenity space (Q1 2027-Q1 2029)

Phase Three (southwest of Truman and Brooklyn avenues):

36 for-sale units (Q3 2027-Q3 2029)
60 affordable service-enriched housing units; 1,500 square feet of amenity space (Q3 2027-Q3 2029)
185 market-rate apartments; 1,500 square feet of amenity space (Q1 2028-Q1 2030)

https://www-bizjournals-com.kclibrary.i ... treet.html

[FangKC]

I don't know why they are planning new commercial space seeing that the Jazz District is adding some more, and the district has had problems attracting commercial and retail.

[FangKC]

Rosin Preservation posted some photos showing the transformation of the Crispus Attucks School for reuse as the ZhouB Art Center. Some include the restoration of the auditorium, which was in bad shape.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C33deYsubkF ... BiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tRQrBNPuV ... BiNWFlZA==

[Eon Blue]

Rosin Preservation posted some photos showing the transformation of the Crispus Attucks School for reuse as the ZhouB Art Center. Some include the restoration of the auditorium, which was in bad shape.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C33deYsubkF ... BiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tRQrBNPuV ... BiNWFlZA==

A perfect example to have handy for every time someone says that something is too far gone to restore.

[langosta]

CM Melissa Hadley introduced ordinance to spend $20 million on a new 18th Vine garage. Wish that was $$$ towards an 18 Vine LRT or BRT line!

[bspecht]

Patterson-Hazley proposed a $20M 18th & Vine garage yesterday during BAP discussions, was rejected to go through normal process... and here it is: https://clerk.kcmo.gov/LegislationDetai ... FullText=1

[TheLastGentleman]

They’re hoping for some PGOD (Parking Garage Oriented Development)